Quotes from Ingrid Newkirk

Perhaps one of the most important things you can do for human beings is wean them off an animal-based diet. It hardens the arteries and runs up our health-care costs. The last thing a poor person can afford is a heart attack or cancer or a stroke. And that's all linked to a meat-based diet. I think animal liberation is human liberation.

Give your dog or cat respect, patience, understanding and love. And if you just change to one vegetarian day a week, that's a wonderful step that will save animal lives. It means you have chosen something kind instead of something cruel.

When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.

Having a purebred human baby is like having a purebred dog; it's nothing but vanity, human vanity.

Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.

If my father had a heart attack it would give me no solace at all to know his treatment was first tried on a dog.

Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal.